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Aerospace systems are genuine mechatronic artifacts characterized
by the synergistic integration of their mechanical, electromechanical, and electronic
components, as well as built-in informational constituents in the form of microcontrollers.
Design of such systems is complicated, as the conventional decoupled or loosely-coupled
approaches can hardly provide optimal or even sub-optimal solutions. The primary
objective of the Space Mechatronics research thrust is to develop systematic
frameworks and modular, hierarchical architectures for the concurrent, detail-level
engineering of aerospace systems, from conception to configuration to integration
to realization and implementation, by using the expert's knowledge base through
the object-oriented hardware-in-the-loop simulations. Some of the group's current applications
include Insect Robotics, Heterogeneous Robotic Teams, Rehabilitation Robotics, and Linguistic
Mechatronics.
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